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A Novel Hybrid Personal Cooling System Incorporated with Dry Ice and Ventilation Fans to Mitigate the Heat Strain of Mascot Actors in a Hot and Humid Environment

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In this work, a hybrid personal cooling suit incorporated with dry ice and ventilation fans (HYB), and a water-cooling suit (WCS) were chosen to examine actual cooling performance on mascot actors while performing a moderate activity at 34 °C & RH = 78%. The total trial duration was 60 min (40-min walking at 4.0 km/h followed by 20-min resting at room temperature [24 ± 1°C, RH = 55 ± 5%]). Results showed that both HYB and WCS successfully prevented the mascot wearers’ core temperature from rising above 38.0 °C during trials. In contrast, core temperatures of CON (i.e., no cooling) reached 38.0 °C in 35 min. Heart rates in HYB and WCS were decreased by 11 and 17 beats/min compared to that of CON. Perceptual responses have been greatly improved by wearing HYB and WCS. It was concluded that HYB and WCS could mitigate heat stress on mascot wearers during a performance in the studied condition.

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  1. Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Cathy Sin-Wei Chow & Faming Wang

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Chow, C.SW., Wang, F. (2020). A Novel Hybrid Personal Cooling System Incorporated with Dry Ice and Ventilation Fans to Mitigate the Heat Strain of Mascot Actors in a Hot and Humid Environment. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 967. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20142-5_43

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